(7-02) Tour
Stop 9 (Lower Bridge: Burnside Bridge), view looking north from the high
ground on the west bank of Antietam Creek.. 2002 NPS Tour Guide:
The fighting here was a key factor in McClellan's failure at Antietam.
Called Burnside Bridge after the Union general whose troops were held off
most of the day by a few hundred Georgia riflemen, it is the battlefields
best-known landmark